5 star reviewers, do we work for the same company?? - Team Lead Innodata Employee Review

1.0
Feb 15, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Remote work Okay pay for AI Majority of coworkers fantastic

Cons

Constant lay offs with no acknowledgement of them to most staff, NO raises unless promoted and promotions aren't frequent anymore, volatile, unethical clients, horrific communication and practically no management software. Nepotism, homophobia, a utterly lacking HR department, one rep didn't even know the word neurodivergent. Heavy focus on stock prices while they lay off huge swaths of the workforce. Innodata is nearing 30 years but I've seen startups be more organized. They refuse to promote team leads to team manager levels (pay difference) despite us all doing the same work. The most short-sighted company I've ever seen.

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5.0
Feb 2, 2026
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Pros

Great place to work with consistent communication.

Cons

Days can get repetitive and dry

2.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

The vast majority of the people I worked with on projects for a major internet company were friendly and educated. The pay was decent for trivial remote work.

Cons

Projects were tedious at best and seemed poorly designed. Rubrics designed either by the contracting company or Innodata were often poorly thought through, and rules tripped over themselves or remained ambiguous. The company we were sub-contracted to was infamous for not replying to inquiries asking for clarification for how to evaluate the AI. Prompts given to the AI were often incoherent--just a word or name, often misspelled--which left us making arbitrary decisions about how well the AI addressed the prompt. Rubrics were hidden from employees evaluating the AI, though that seemed to be a result of neglect by a company still figuring out how to run things, not an active decision to deceive employees. I left well before the recent waves of layoffs. Management had tried to assure us that jobs were secure, but that seemed delusional given that the contracting company was farming out work through other companies rather than hire us itself.

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